How To Crack rar password

If you forget your password for compressed archive (rar, 7z, zip), RarCrack is the solution. RarCrack uses a brute-force algorithm to find correct password. You can specify which characters will be used in password generations.

Preparing your system for installation

Install the following package
# aptitude install libxml2-dev build-essential

Download the latest version of rarcrack from here
# wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rarcrack/rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2

Extract the tarball file

#tar xvjf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2

#cd rarcrack-0.2

#make

#make install

Using Rarcrack

rarcrack your_encrypted_archive.ext [--threads thread_num] [--type rar|zip|7z]

Example with a rar-file, 7z-file, and zip-file
# rarcrack password_protected.rar
# rarcrack password_protected.7z
# rarcrack password_protected.zip